The municipal council of the city of Laayoune held on Saturday the signing of the twinning between municipalities of Laayoune and Italian Sorrento to strengthen the bonds of friendship and cooperation between the two cities in the political, economic, social, cultural and scientific fields. This twinning with a European city is a historically unprecedented event in the Sahara region.

The Speaker of the House of Representatives of Colombia, Mr. German Varon Cotrino, described, Thursday in Rabat, the autonomy plan for the Sahara as "most viable".

The Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs continued and ended late in the evening of Thursday to Friday, the works of its first regular session for 2009.

The autonomy plan proposed by Morocco "is likely to bring bout a negotiated political solution" to the Sahara issue, "said Speaker of Sicily's regional, Francesco Cascio.